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As many of you are aware, I recently made a calculation for Cell that examined the power he would need to destroy the solar system. The calculation was done under one assumption: Cell didn't destroy the Sun before anything else.
I feel like a lot of the criticism for it came from a place of misunderstanding or innocent ignorance, rather than a genuine opposition for reasons that hold water. So I will be covering all the arguments for why this shouldn't be used and debunking them.
1. The Kamehameha Isn't Omnidirectional: Well, Cell being Solar System level already assumes that the blast is omnidirectional. While the Kamehameha itself isn't omnidirectional, it has shown the ability to explode upon impact, similar to how Vegeta's Galick Gun would destroy the Earth, only at interplanetary distances. While the initial Ki blast is a beam, the Ki explosion (or outright physical explosion) would be omnidirectional, achieving the solar system bust.
2. You Can't Use a Non-Canon Game to Scale Canon Cell: I'm not. The game only gives visualization to what canon Cell has already been accepted to be capable of. Calcing the game itself would involve taking the speed of the blast and derive an even higher result. My calculation is exclusively the power required the destroy the solar system from Earth.
3. Cell never said he would destroy it from Earth: There are three options in this scenario. Either...
For Cell to be baseline, you must support option B of issue 3; there is no way around this.
5. Cell would just make the Sun go Supernova, destroying the solar system: Not only does this once again require the assumption of option B of issue 3, but this doesn't even work mathematically. A Supernova unleashes approximately 10^44 joules, what is known as 1 FOE. Not only is the extreme headcanon, it is only Large Star level.
6. Cell would leave Earth and then destroy the solar system: Incredibly unintuitive. Not only is the raw headcanon, but it completely butchers the meaning of the scene. Cell announces he has "gathered enough Ki" to destroy the solar system. Why would he unleash the attack that he powered with this "gathered Ki" only to not destroy the solar system, then leave after he killed Gohan and then do it? This makes no sense to me.
So I'll ask you: With your common sense and Occam's Razor, which is more likely: Cell destroys the Earth and the resulting explosion takes out the solar system, resulting in 1 KiloFOE, or Cell either turns is beam around to hit the Sun first or leaves the planet to then destroy the system after the fight ended.
TLDR: There is no TLDR for these arguments. In short: Cell busts the solar system from Earth and thus wields 1 KiloFOE of energy.
I feel like a lot of the criticism for it came from a place of misunderstanding or innocent ignorance, rather than a genuine opposition for reasons that hold water. So I will be covering all the arguments for why this shouldn't be used and debunking them.
1. The Kamehameha Isn't Omnidirectional: Well, Cell being Solar System level already assumes that the blast is omnidirectional. While the Kamehameha itself isn't omnidirectional, it has shown the ability to explode upon impact, similar to how Vegeta's Galick Gun would destroy the Earth, only at interplanetary distances. While the initial Ki blast is a beam, the Ki explosion (or outright physical explosion) would be omnidirectional, achieving the solar system bust.
2. You Can't Use a Non-Canon Game to Scale Canon Cell: I'm not. The game only gives visualization to what canon Cell has already been accepted to be capable of. Calcing the game itself would involve taking the speed of the blast and derive an even higher result. My calculation is exclusively the power required the destroy the solar system from Earth.
3. Cell never said he would destroy it from Earth: There are three options in this scenario. Either...
- A. Cell fires the Kamehameha, which misses Earth, and travels farther into the solar system and finally hits a meteor or other planet and explodes. Now this option actually splits into A1. and A2. So really we have four possibilities.
- A1. The beam was fired towards the Sun, which would lower the result, as the blast is now closer to the Sun. This would still not be baseline though.
- A2. The beam was fired away from the Sun, which would raise the result, as the blast is now farther away from the Sun. This would be beyond my found result.
- B. The beam was fired directly at the Sun. This option is the only possible way Cell is baseline. Cell never mentions that he is targeting the Sun, and unless it was dawn/dusk, Cell could not have hit it this way without actively redirecting it. Since Cell never seems concerned with the Sun, hitting it or otherwise, this shouldn't be an option that holds water, in my opinion.
- C. The beam hits Earth and obliterates it, and then explodes. This explosion destroys the Solar System. This is what my above calculation entails, and requires the least assumption.
For Cell to be baseline, you must support option B of issue 3; there is no way around this.
5. Cell would just make the Sun go Supernova, destroying the solar system: Not only does this once again require the assumption of option B of issue 3, but this doesn't even work mathematically. A Supernova unleashes approximately 10^44 joules, what is known as 1 FOE. Not only is the extreme headcanon, it is only Large Star level.
6. Cell would leave Earth and then destroy the solar system: Incredibly unintuitive. Not only is the raw headcanon, but it completely butchers the meaning of the scene. Cell announces he has "gathered enough Ki" to destroy the solar system. Why would he unleash the attack that he powered with this "gathered Ki" only to not destroy the solar system, then leave after he killed Gohan and then do it? This makes no sense to me.
So I'll ask you: With your common sense and Occam's Razor, which is more likely: Cell destroys the Earth and the resulting explosion takes out the solar system, resulting in 1 KiloFOE, or Cell either turns is beam around to hit the Sun first or leaves the planet to then destroy the system after the fight ended.
TLDR: There is no TLDR for these arguments. In short: Cell busts the solar system from Earth and thus wields 1 KiloFOE of energy.
